Horacio Torres b. 1924 Livorno, Italy - d. 1976

Of the many painters who studied with his father, the great Constructivist artist Joaquín Torres-García, Horacio Torres made the into the Contemporary art world of abstract and expressionistic painters in New York's 1970s. That he did so with figurative canvases was a singular achievement. Taken under the wing of the critic Clement Greenberg, who understood that Horacio's work was really about painting and was thoroughly modern, Horacio explored the thunderous territory of Titian, Velasquez and late Goya with a unique background of skill and aesthetic education in a contemporary way. Thus the series of headless nudes and of figures with faces obscured, make clear his painterly intentions and concerns. His monumental canvases are wondrous exercises of painted imagination formed with the structure of the depicted figure, but they are not about nudes, they are about painting.

Public Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Museum of Fine Arts, , Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brandeis University Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts Hastings College, Nebraska Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, New York Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Edmonton Museum, Alberta, Canada Biblioteca Nacional, Montevideo, Uruguay Museo Blanes, Montevideo, Uruguay

Main Solo Exhibitions (partial listing)

2017 Horacio Torres: Nudes, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York 2016 Horacio Torres: Early Works, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York 1999 Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, New York Cecilia de Torres, Ltd. New York 1989 Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, New York 1986 Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, New York 1983 Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada 1982 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada 1981 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

1980 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York 1979 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York 1976 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York 1975 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York 1978 Galería Karlen Guggerlmeier, Montevideo 1977 Meredith Long Contemporary, New York 1975 Watson/de Nagy & Co., Houston, Texas 1974 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Richard Grey Gallery, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, , 1973 Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York 1968 Galería Moretti, Montevideo, Uruguay 1965 Galería Moretti, Montevideo, Uruguay 1963 Biblioteca Nacional, Montevideo, Uruguay 1961 Galería Witcomb, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1956 Galerie Du Haut-Pavée, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions (partial listing)

2016 Under the Influence, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York 2015 The South was Their North: Artists of the Torres-García Workshop, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York

2006 Line-Plane-Volume/Sculpture: 1940-2006, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York 2002 Modernism in Montevideo & Buenos Aires: 1930s-1960s, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York 2000 A Latin American Metaphysical Perspective, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York 1998 The Murals of Sant-Bois Hospital, Ministerio de Relaciónes Exteriores, Montevideo, Uruguay The School of the South, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York La Escuela del Sur-El Taller Torres-García, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, California Sixties by Six, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York 1997 A Escola do Sul, Pavilhão Cultural Renée Behar, São Paulo, Brazil La Escuela del Sur, Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela T-G y 10 Artistas del Taller, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina Dibujos en papel, Galería Clavé, Caracas, Venezuela El Taller Torres-García, Museo Central de Costa Rica, San Juan 1996 The Still Life, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York City Constructive Universalism, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C. 1995 65 Years of Constructivist Wood, Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New York 1993 El Taller Torres-García, The School of the South, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; 1991 Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas; Museo de Monterrey & Museo Rufino Tamayo, México; The Bronx Museum, New York. 1992 Les Tutoyeurs de L’Arc-en-ciel, Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, France 1990 Group 1990, Salander - O’Reilly Gallery, New York Figuring the Body, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1982 Latin American Artists in New York since 1970, Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas 1981 Contemporary Realism, The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York The Figure, Tibor de Nagy, New York 1980 Tibor de Nagy: Works from the Personal Collection, Syracuse U. Gallery, N.Y. 1979 The Image of Post-Modern Man in Contemporary Painting, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville 1979-78 Painterly Realism, Watson de Nagy & Co., Houston, Texas; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Waco Creative Art Center, Texas 1978 Selected Twentieth Century American Nudes, Harold Reed Gallery, New York 1974 New Accessions U.S.A., Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado 1966 One Hundred Years - Uruguayan Painting, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1956 Jonges Schilders uit Uruguay, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Works for Public Spaces

1962 Three Murals in brick relief, Seminario de Toledo, Canelones, Uruguay (interior) 1958 Mural in relief (polychrome sheet steel), Liceo Miranda Nº9, Montevideo, Uruguay 1950 Mural decoration, ANCAP executive suite, Montevideo, Uruguay 1944 Two Murals, Hospital Saint Bois, Montevideo, Uruguay

Selected Bibliography

Bell, Jane. Horacio Torres at Noah Goldowsky, Arts Magazine, vol. 47, no.7, May-June, 1973 Lubell, Ellen. Arts Magazine, vol. 47, no. 6, April 1973 Crimp,Douglas. Art News, vol. 72, no. 4, April 1973 Moffett, Kenworth. Horacio Torres, with Some Notes on Contemporary Representational Painting. Art International, Volume XIX/2, February 1975 Moffett, Kenworth. Horacio Torres and the Affirmation of a Monumental Figurative Art, Arts Magazine, November 1975 Nochlin, L. & Leslie, A. Torres, New Uses of History, Art in America, March-April 1976 frech-frazier, Nina. Horacio Torres, Arts Magazine, April 1979 Tatransky, Valentin. Horacio Torres, Arts Magazine, April 1981 Yau, John. Art in America, October 1981 Brenson, Michael. Horacio Torres, The New York Times, Friday, Jan. 5, 1990 (review of the exhibition at Salander- O’Reilly Gallery)